[Tig] End Credits at the cinema

[Rob Lingelbach]

On Feb 21, 2007, at 9:30 PM, Dominic Case wrote:

> Quite agree, Rob. It's bad enough ...... a quick crossfade to  
> wallpaper music to see the reel out. Why don't they write theme  
> tunes to the right length?

That's something that has also bothered me watching the credits- as you
describe, the crossfade to wallpaper music - They spend 100 million on
the film and can't rearrange the film's music for the credits?  Even
I Love Lucy had a nicely timed closing theme and credits, and it must
have cost all of 10k$US per episode.  (my absolute favorite US TV
music of all time: the Perry Mason theme)

> I was simply taking the view that it's tough having to prove that -  
> and
> while a star could afford a fleet of lawyers to ensure that his or  
> her name
> was up at the front where it couldn't be missed, and sue the pants  
> off a
> theatre that misbehaved, your third carpenter isn't in the same  
> powerful
> position.

ah but that he could be.. in a true democracy :)  ..if only Herodotus
had known how to make movies..

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